semi colon character was expected

[thompom]

hi - am building an xml file dynamically using asp,
used to work fine but now i get this error

A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource...

<img src="adverts/vxads/xtra1.jpg" link="3coltemp.asp?pagesetupid=5&adid=6" />

any ideas welcome

thanks MG

 

[tsuji]

><img src="adverts/vxads/xtra1.jpg" link="3coltemp.asp?pagesetupid=5&adid=6" />
[tt]<img src="adverts/vxads/xtra1.jpg" link="3coltemp.asp?pagesetupid=5[red]&amp;[/red]adid=6" />[/tt]

 

[thompom]

thanks v much!

 

[harebrain]

While that solves the immediate problem, you're still set-up for failure down the road. Dynamically generating a link? URLEncode(link) before plopping it into your link attribute.

 

[thompom]

ok - thanks for the tip
works fine at the moment - when would this issue give me trouble?

 

[harebrain]

When your link contains other characters that can be misinterpreted in a URL. Most likely, you just need to be careful to catch all the ampersands, but a "<" in the link, for instance, will break things again. Obviously, you're building query strings, which often contain stuff a user enters. Let the trouble begin!

 

[thompom]

yeah - see the issue - guna encode them henceforth!!